[Community_garden] How NOT to deal with Poison Ivy

[Mike McGrath]

actually, the clay is to be applied BEFORE you garden or go into the woods; 
that's what Ivy-Block is--a suspension of kaolin clay...
                                                                    ---McG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Rebekah.L.Filipello at wellsfargo.com>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] How NOT to deal with Poison Ivy


>
> OK, I've got to jump in here and relate a story about poison oak. Lenny,
> you may do well using jewel weed ice cubes, but when my eight-year-old
> daughter tried to 'wash' the urishol off her arm using ice cubes (the
> only water we had at that picnic), she ended up SPREADING the oil and
> rubbing it thoroughly into her skin. The resulting rash was the densest
> mass of PO blisters I have ever seen, and the poor child was very
> miserable. My herbalist friend Adam Seller recommended masking the area
> with dolomite clay, which has a powerful drawing effect as it dries. I
> do believe that helped, but it was still weeks before she was PO free.
>
> Beki Filipello
>
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